‘Jill not Hill’ _ Green Party’s Stein seeks Sanders’ backers

That’s Green Party candidate Jill Stein, whose liberal agenda of tuition-free college, $15-per-hour minimum wage and a renewable energy economy by 2030 offers a home to Sanders’ supporters disillusioned by the two-party political system and unwilling to back Democrat Hillary Clinton.

Speaking at a temporary campaign office in Philadelphia during the week of the Democratic National Convention, Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein refuted the notion that 2016 voters must choose between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.

“They can’t expect people to just come into the fold just because”, she said. The two were wearing green shirts created to show support for the Green party featuring the slogan “DemExit”, a riff on Great Britain’s recent “Brexit” from the European Union. “And it’s so frustrating because for so many months people were calling Bernie people conspiracy theorists and all this kind of stuff”.

Martin wasn’t the only one who felt that way.

However, Dr Cornel West – a Bernie backer and former member of the DNC’s platform committee who went on to endorse Stein over Clinton after he was disillusioned by the process – told RT that he was disappointed by Sanders’ decision to endorse the former secretary of state. Ms. Stein, 66, is attempting to fill that niche.

Sanders supporters are a reluctant lot – they simply don’t want to switch over to voting for Clinton, despite Sanders standing up before the convention attendees and imploring them to do so.

“I don’t know the leadership of the Green Party, but I respect what they’re trying to do”, Sanders said, per the Washington Post. “And it seems important to at least explore the reasons behind their disaffection, and the extent to which they can be reconciled before the general election”.

Trump has never been the preferred candidate of Republican Party regulars, but they are unified by their dislike of Clinton. Stein first expressed her concerns about vaccines in the Reddit AMA session, which was reported earlier this week.

Dale Rains, 39, a sandwich delivery man from Minneapolis who was among the demonstrators at the convention, said he’d vote for Stein because he had that luxury: Minnesota traditionally votes Democratic in national elections.

“They did much more than say bad things – they sabotaged a truly revolutionary campaign”, Stein told the crowd, Bloomberg reported. They would like us to be a movement to stop fracking over there, to stop police violence over there, to stop deportations over there – we need to be all of those movements all together. Simply going away apparently is not an option. She said Reform Judaism’s emphasis on social justice had a “huge” influence on her policies.

A California Democratic Party official wisely advised against self-pity. Stein told The Guardian she would even be willing to let Sanders run in her place as the Green candidate.

People in India will be just as familiar with the name of Jill Stein as they are with the rules of American football.

Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein.

Stein has proven to be a chief agitator, as Bernie Sanders himself rejoins the fold and urges Democrats to get behind Clinton’s campaign.

Whether Stein would be viewed as a wedge between Trump and Clinton and draw votes from the Democratic contender – as Ralph Nader did between George W. Bush and Al Gore in 2000 – remains to be seen. “I sort of feel like this very powerful force is coming through us right now”.

And there will be compromises, like supporting Hillary Clinton to make sure that the most risky authoritarian to ever enter our national stage does not get elected this November.

With the temperature in Philadelphia hitting 101 degrees in the afternoon on Tuesday and only simmering down to 88 at night, rather than turn in like many of her fellow delegates did after voting for Sanders, Proctor found herself among instant friends at FDR Park.

Before entering politics, Stein was a practicing physician for 25 years.

While it’s never fun to see people get so caught up in paranoia and muddled political thinking, this rally wasn’t almost as frightening as the Alex Jones rally at the RNC. But anger and sadness were evident on the faces of Mr. Sanders’ supporters and delegates. Outside, demonstrators marched down Broad Street toward the convention site, and about 1,000 protestors rallied behind 10-foot black metal fences. “No longer will we vote for the lesser of two evils”.

One sign warned. “Hillary’s Not Too Big To Jail”.